Technology Sustainability Innovation – Solution Manager

We Are:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, Accenture Song, Technology and Operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

Technology is one of the greatest sustainability enablers.

Our Global Technology Sustainability Innovation team is at the forefront of driving environmental, societal & governance impact of technology whilst also creating concepts for new digital technologies that reduce the negative impact of our clients’ value chain. Our three innovation pods help our clients to mitigate their climate risk:

Climate Risk Forecasting

ESG Data Interoperability

Industry Cloud Sustainability

The Work:

We are looking for a Manager who can build innovative industry assets to operationalize the pod and co-ordinate the delivery and manage senior client relationships. You will navigate the ecosystem of Accenture to build capability for projects and liase with your leadership team to understand the vision and requirements for projects.

Responsibilities:

Solution Development & Ownership

Build a deeper understanding of assigned innovation area, identify and fill innovation gaps and generate new ideas

Define, prioritize, oversee and implement multiple projects. Scope and prioritize activities based on business and client impact

Perform market and competitor analysis, obtain and incorporate customer feedback into solution vision/roadmap

Own and drive the vision of solution roadmap

Create buy-in for the solution vision both internally or with external partners (outside of TSI or Accenture).

Convert solution strategy into detailed requirements, prototypes, demos and offerings

Identify external organizations for Spotlight investment or partnerships

Industrialization of assets and offerings

Act as a solution evangelist to build awareness and understanding

Contribute to the success of solution implementation and adoption

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Work closely with Asset Engineering Hub, Marketing and Communications team (MarCom), Innovations, Capabilities and other stakeholders to deliver result. Ensure that projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed

Collaborate with your peers in leadership to define a strategic vision for what we build, helping focus on solving user problems

Prioritize solution offerings backlog and leverage Innovation team to create the differentiators

Collaborate with innovation & activation team to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources

Collaborate on Go-to-Market strategy and Promotional Plans with MarCom

Stakeholder management

Manage relationships with all the stakeholders to understand and prioritize requirements, apart from acting as a bridge between the various technical and non-technical teams to simplify

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Here’s What you Need:

Minimum of 7 years of experience delivering technology solutions, with a focus & passion for sustainability and strategy

A minimum of 5 years of experience working in project delivery and stakeholder management

A minimum of 3 years of experience as a solution manager, product manager or similar roles involving building scalable and optimized solutions

A minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience analysing large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data to draw insights and trends

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points if:

Deep understanding of technology – latest and greatest technological trends

Innovative mindset – comfortable operating in start-up type environment

Ability to utilise key industry & trends to develop value propositions

An understanding of business model innovation

As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is $119,880 – $227,600 and information on benefits offered is here.

COVID-19 update:

The safety and well-being of our candidates, our people and their families continues to be a top priority. Until travel restrictions change, interviews will continue to be conducted virtually.

Subject to applicable law, please be aware that Accenture requires all employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. Accenture will consider requests for accommodation to this vaccination requirement during the recruiting process.

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here

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